[okiesap]

I agree. My PC views regarding racism were completely "deflowered" by the time I hit junior high in 1979. Racism suddenly cut both ways. Prior to 1979, I was raised to assume only whites were capable of prejudice based on skin color. I guess you had to be born early enough to remember the civil rights movement to feel the sympathy my parents tried to instill in me.

[quebecois]

"I guess you had to be born early enough to remember the civil rights movement to feel the sympathy that my parents tried to instill in me"

I was born just after the civil rights movement (late '60s). My only living recollection of racial issues in america is being at the bottom of the totem pole for affirmative action, etc. This, along with the generally hostile attitude that many blacks have against whites and the smear job that our education system does on white history, is my generation's perspective on the whole affair. Young whites in this country are growing tired of sitting in the back of the bus to "make up" for real and alleged wrongs of other people in other times.